All of my creative business workshops have been discounted because I will be launching an all NEW DREAM BIG program in 2015. There are over 350 pages of content in the creaive business workbooks, creative business journal + planner pages, 112 creative business topics/discussions and 30+ HD videos and live stream Q & A replays in all of my business e-courses.

SAVE an additional 25%

on creative business and mixed media e-course bundles through Cyber Monday.

PLUS

if you purchase a creative business bundle you'll receive FREE access to

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>To take advantage of extra specials, head on over to my digital shoppe and place the e-courses in your cart. You will be prompted to checkout using your credit card or Paypal, enter your info {you won't be charged yet}, then you will be taken back to the shopping cart where you can enter the coupon code and then complete the checkout process. Discounts will be taken off entire order. This is on top of the already discounted BUNDLE prices too. only one coupon per order. $25 treiCdesigns gift cards will be sent electronically December 15, 2014. cyber monday discount codes expire December 1 at 11:59pm. Please allow 48 hours from next business day to receive the e-course classroom invite.

Today, for the first time ever, ALL of my creative business e-courses are on SALE! These have been my most popular e-courses to date. There are over 350 pages of content, worksheets, collage sheets, art journaling cards and hours of video discussions and lectures all ready for self-gudied access.

Discovering YOU part one...This e-course is a mixture of creative play, writing, art journaling,
collage and exploring. With over 120 pages of colorful workbook pdf pages and 10 video lectures, I reveal clever ways to visually brainstorm
your business ideas and market your creative business. DISCOVERING YOU...combining your talents and passions to
help you find unique ways to pursue business opportunities.
You will be guided through creative exercises during this six week
e-course to build your “dream B.I.G.” journal, personal stationery,
logo, promotion materials and creative business marketing road map. Your inspiration
NOTEBOOK will be filled with your dreams, lists, goals, images and ideas
to promote YOU. It’s never to late to DREAM BIG. details + register for Discovering YOU part one

Discovering YOU part two...this workshop is about discovering YOU. branding YOU. marketing YOUR art. This is the follow up e-course to my popular discovering Y.O.U. part one e-course.
Part TWO focuses on 21 strategies to execute your creative marketing
roadmap. This course is geared towards entrepreneurs/artists who have
been in business for at least a year. It is helpful if you have a web
presence {i.e. blog or website} and working knowledge of social media.
You can take this course without having taken discovering Y.O.U. part
one as long as you have an established web and social media presence. details + register for Discovering YOU part two

DREAM BIG Discovering YOU bundle ...combines
all the content in the DREAM BIG PREMIUM membership PLUS unlimited
access to my Discovering YOU creative business e-courses. This
registration option includes the Discovering YOU e-courses at a highly
discounted rate.

Access to self-study INSTANT DOWNLOAD Discovering YOU e-courses
{part one & part two}, which includes 240+ pages PDF e-book and 20
videos on creative business. The Discovering YOU e-course invitations
will be sent within 72 hours of registration.

DREAM BIG is a year-long program that includes
resources to GROW your creative business and inspire you with ideas on
how to make a living doing what you love and create a successful career
based on your passions. The DREAM BIG digital guides and online
community will feature content on a vast number of creative business
topics.

As a DREAM BIG PREMIUM member you will receive the following:

The DREAM BIG digital guides are
colorful PDF e-books with numerous pages of ideas, worksheets, stories,
journal jumpstarts and case studies. The guides feature articles on how
to build your creative business focusing on marketing campaigns,
budgeting, blogging, social media, market trends to industry research.
Originally published in 2012, the monthly digital workbooks cover a vast
number of business topics. These workbooks are intended to help you
work in your DREAM BIG business journal and provide guidance in
developing your creative marketing roadmap for the year.

The DREAM BIG online community is
designed to give creative entrepreneurs a place to share resources,
ideas, ask questions and talk with like-minded people who share a
passion for art, design and creative business. The online community is
hosted privately on my creativityUNLEASHED collective website.

Whether you are just launching your business, thinking about transitioning your career or a seasoned expert, DREAM BIG offers a variety of valuable information to help you plan and take your business to the next level. Visit here to see students Discovering YOU creative business planning journals. This is a GREAT investment to help you grow your business!

To take advantage of the sale price, head on over to my digital shoppe
and place the creative business e-courses in your cart. You will be prompted
to checkout via Paypal, enter your info {you won't be charged yet}, then
you will be taken back to the shopping cart where you can enter the coupon code: BTS40CB
and then complete the checkout process. A 40% discount will be take off CREATIVE BUSINESS e-courses only. This is on top of the already discounted BUNDLE prices too. Please allow 48 hours to receive the
e-course classroom invite. SALE ends 8/31/13. {note: this offer is not available for my mixed media e-courses, studio workshops or other digital or physical products}

In my AUTUMN creative business camp forum I've shared a few more posts & discussions on planning for the holidays including new PDF workbooks, journal cards and tabs {photo above} for your creative business notebook. Today's ACBC holiday planning post delves into 25 ideas to jumpstart your holiday social media promotion. As you know social media can be used in many ways to promote and market your business. Here are five of the 25 ideas...

<<<<< FIVE holiday social media promotion ideas >>>>>

IDEA #1: create a Pinterest board of interesting DIY holiday ideas including holiday decor, holiday recipes or patterns. Add in a few of pins from your own site to promote your handmade holiday items. create a collaborative board and invite others to add pins.

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IDEA #2: share a photo of a DIY holiday project in process on Facebook or IG. Last holiday season, I shared this photo via Instagram of my handmade pompoms and fiber crocheted garland Christmas tree decorations.

<<<<< sales promotion codes>>>>>

IDEA #3: offer special holiday sales promotion codes on all your social media outlets. TIP: provide different promo codes for each promotion so it's easier to track which promotions your audience respond to. For this promo code I used "holiday20tweet" for Twitter and "holiday20fb" for Facebook. Make sure to share the rules of your promo code in your post.

<<<<< HOLIDAY giveaways>>>>>

IDEA #4: put together a special HOLIDAY giveaway and promote in via all your social media outlets. Last year, I put together a box full of goodies of my favorite art supplies and gave it away on my blog for Thanksgiving as a thank you for all my lovely blog readers. What kind of fun giveaway can you offer your audience? think about creating different giveaways for each social media audience. Maybe a digital download for the 20th person who retweets a tweet. Experiment with different engaging ideas to interact with your audience.

<<<<< HOLIDAY blog button>>>>>

IDEA #5: design a holiday branded blog button for your holiday blog series and encourage your readers to join in the blog series by adding the blog button to their sites. Also, the branded blog button is a great image for people to use when pinning your DIY tutorials or blog series. The image below is one of the blog buttons I created for my {24} HOLIDAY inspirations blog series.

join the AUTUMN creative business CAMP forum to access the rest of the holiday social media promotions ideas, ideas for DIY tutorials, holiday planning & analysis worksheets, AUTUMN
creative business camp discussions and pdf workbooks/digital downloads {see photo at top & below}. I will be hosting a LIVE
stream chat in the forum too!

if you have a regular blog series, think of ways you can incorporate the holidays. {ie. if you do a fashion blog post series...how about holiday colored clothing or an ugly holiday sweater theme}

create a blog series. In 2009, I created my blog series, 24{holiday} inspirations, my goal was to post 24 days of creative inspiration posts during the month of December, that revolved around topics to celebrate the holidays. This series includes DIY tutorials, color palettes, art journaling prompts, artist profiles and daily life posts all related to the holidays. I have continued the blog series for the past three years and the content has been some of my most popular posts.

think about creative ways to show your audience the behind the scene snapshots of your studio...how you create your products or artwork.

give a sneak peek of upcoming product releases

what types of tutorials can you share with your audience? don't copy what's been done already, share new ideas. If you have an idea, do a quick google search to see if it's been done before. if it has, how can you make yours unique and different?

what are your favorite things to do during the holidays? how can you translate them into stories for your blog?

look at your photographs, what stories do they tell? photographs can always inspire great ideas for blog posts

do you have favorite holiday memories or yummy recipes? tell the stories, share photos of the holiday table or dishes.

ask your audience...take a poll to find out what your audience wants to read more about on your blog.

collaborate with other artists..find ways to work with your favorite bloggers/artist friends. maybe a fun technique blog post, a themed post with photos.

share your favorite holiday decorations.

how can you translate holiday trends/themes into a blog post? Etsy has great merchandising resources that you can use to inspire your blog content.

look at patterns, prints and color palettes. create a holiday post about colors.

share ideas for setting the holiday table and fun party planning ideas

how do you celebrate Halloween? parties...costumes...pet costumes

kids holiday project ideas and tutorials

setting the holiday table and fun party planning ideas

what music do you listen to during the holidays? create a playlist, share your favorite band's music or holiday album

read your blog comments, they might spark more content ideas

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do you have favorite topics to write about during the holidays? share you thoughts in the comments. happy holiday planning...xo~Traci

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join AUTUMN creative business CAMP for additonal access to creative business planning worksheets, pdf workbooks/digital downloads {see photo above} and discussions related to all the blog series posts. There is a LIVE stream webinar Q & A replay included in the content more details & register here

Today kicks off my AUTUMN creative business CAMP {ACBC} blog series, for the next couple of months I'll be sharing ideas for planning a successful holiday season and kickstarting your 2013 marketing plans. Let's talk about blog content planning and brainstorming! My blog is a tool to help promote my creative business, share my artwork, personal stories and tutorials. Here's a peek into how I go about planning my blog posts...{above: planning worksheets from my DREAM BIG creative business program}

The one thing I am never short of is ideas. I've tried a number of different ways to plan out my blog posts from making lists, writing out a complete calendar schedule to a two-column approach with ideas on one side and actual blog posts in the second column. Since I'm not an everyday blogger, I found that trying to stick to a schedule was difficult. There are many days when I wake up and decide I want to write about something completely different or have an idea that I can't wait to share. So I needed to devise a plan that would work with my blogging style. I like to have a lot of flexibility with my posts and I've found that creatively planing my content using post-it notes works perfect.

{above} BEFORE: I used to write a list of ideas out with coordinating calendar dates, but I found it hard to stick with this rigid schedule

create calendar - draw lines to create a calendar inside a manila folder. using a folder is a great because you can tuck other planning notes and pages into the folder. write the dates and weekdays into the calendar. add in holidays or special dates. you can decorate the folder with additional doodles or collage. record blog statistics, traffic numbers and notes onto the calendar.

write blog post ideas on post-it notes. use different colors for tutorials or blog series. pin calendar open on the wall for easy access or fold it and carry it if you're on the go.

organize blog planning calendar...place the post-its onto the dates. keep your extra post it notes brainstorm list on the wall. If you decide to write a different post you can easily move around your blog calendar ideas. sometimes I use washi tapes to secure the post-its. when you are finished with the month you can file it away. This is what works for me, it may not be for everyone but I hope it sparks ideas for you!

The AUTUMN creative business CAMP blog series will be delivered a couple times a week through November....stay tuned for more fun holiday planning ideas!

>>>>>>>>>>>>do you have additional ideas or comments about planning your holiday blog calendar? share them in the comments.

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